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New Yorkers Get a Taste of Digital Restrictions

Posted by michael on from the imagine-a-chip-stomping-on-a-human-face-forever dept.

InfoMinister writes "From SiliconValley.com, another peek into the future of Digital Rights Manglement. A software conflict at the set-top invoked copy restrictions on all unscrambled digital TV programming delivered to Cablevision's 3 million subscribers in metropolitan New York."

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  1. Re:Still NOT a DRM Issue by Zathrus · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the original parent post:

    This isn't getting a taste of DRM, its the digital equivalent of your analogue signal being blocked by bad weather or the antenna falling off the roof

    Which is a total and utter misunderstanding of what 5C is.

    5C most certainly is DRM. It serves no purpose to the consumer except to place artificial restrictions on what, when, and how you can watch shows being broadcast over DTV or digital cable.

    Was it human error that caused it to be activated in this circumstance? Sure. But it's still DRM.